SOCIAL MEDIA
Five Important Things to Remember
What Social Media Can Do
There are multiple benefits to using social media in your learning processes. Learning effectiveness is improved as learners more quickly get their hands on better knowledge. Certain skills can be practiced in public, and learners can easily give and receive peer and expert feedback. Online discussion and sharing allows learners to question their own attitudes as well as the attitudes of others. All of this helps improve the actual learning process, as well as the transfer of knowledge to the workplace.
-- Dan Steer (May 2015)
1. MAKE IT MEANINGFUL
Is using social media necessary? Will it help improve what you're trying to teach. Think about what you're teaching and how it will be useful.
2. UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE USING
Be very comfortable with what you'r using in your teachings. Make sure you inform everyone with the necessary materials before teaching.
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3. AVOID RISKS
Using social media improperly could create more trouble than benefits.
4. IT IS THE BIGGEST THING.....
This is the cyber world type of world. Get with the newest technology and everyone will benefit from it.
5. BE PROFESSIONAL
Stick to your purpose and don't sway away from it. Keep focus.
References
“Improving Formal Learning with Social Media” (Steer, 2015)
How Students Benefit from Social Media by Joseph Baker
http://www.edudemic.com/how-students-benefit-from-using-socialmedia/
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